Month: December 2016

The State of Our Co-Evolutionary Kin: The 6th Mass Extinction? Did you know that, according to Cousteau, half of the marine life he filmed in 1956 had disappeared by 1963 (and what is left today)?” (Gorz, 1987, pg. 64) The answer to Gorz’s poignant query, ‘what is left today?’ is a truly terrifying one. Recent… Continue reading 67 Percent

One key aspect of the ecological self and what I maintain to be vital elements of newly harmonious human-nature relations is encapsulated by the transdisciplinary theory of ‘new materialism’ (DeLanda, 1996), which rethinks subjectivity and lends primacy to the role played by matter (atoms, molecules, earth processes, etc.) in the agentic, metamorphosing, and self-organizing natural… Continue reading New Materialism for a Posthumanist Ethic

(A great deal of my research involves uncovering and analyzing the wealth of factors- historical, cultural, psychological, socioeconomic- that influence varying human perceptions of nature and animals, so that we may work towards dismantling that final barrier: the human-animal divide. This piece provides a glimpse into this field and sheds light on some of the… Continue reading Investigating Perceptions of the Animal ‘Other’

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Manifestations of Gaia

Carefully securing a very large hammerhead for data collection. These wondrous beings, despite their menacing demeanor, are actually quite peaceful creatures.

Hello, beautiful :).

A stunning male io moth (Automeris io)

Helping students measure a big and beautiful nurse shark

Mama the gentle donkey

A pod of dolphins playfully riding the wake of our research vessel

On horseback through the North Carolina mountains

Beautiful 5-part radial symmetry

Miami skyline as we advance out into the Florida Keys

Collecting data from a big and beautiful bull shark in the Florida Keys

Juvenile gull on Broadstairs beach, England, UK

Abundant greenery in Edinburgh, Scotland

Wind turbines in Northern Germany

Sydney, the hostel guardian. Homestead, Miami, FL.

A most pleasant lunch companion

Entrancing lecture at the Venus Project Research Center by the illustrious social & industrial engineer, Jacque Fresco. Fresco’s life’s work has been devoted to reconstructing society along more equitable and ecologically sustainable trajectories. In order to start us on a saner path, he proposes the elimination of social pathologies such as war and even the use of monetary systems so that we may create a global resource-based economy wherein advanced technological systems map and distribute the world’s resources without barter, debt, or servitude. His innovative ideas come close to what myriad utopian thinkers have dreamed of for centuries.

Herd of wild deer at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England

Met a lovely new friend at Fort Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands

The enchanting Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, England, UK

Flock of sheep grazing in the meadow. Canterbury, Kent, England

Seehund (Seal) Station, Norddeich, Germany. Injured and/or abandoned seals are rehabilitated at the rescue center and, when ready, are released back into the wild.

Sundown on Whitstable Bay, Kent, England

The serene Schloss Neward Clemenswerth palace grounds, Germany.

Autumn, winter, and spring; Breath-taking seasonal variations in Darwin Courtyard at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England

Traversing the Wadden sea, a World Heritage Site, during low tide along Germany’s northern coast.

Communing with an indian elephant to ease the tension during finals @ the University of Miami.